Jim Jordan loses first vote for House speaker amid GOP defections | CNN Politics
Jim Jordan loses first vote for House speaker amid GOP defections | CNN Politics
Conservative Republican Rep. Jim Jordan fell significantly short of winning the House speaker’s gavel on a first ballot Tuesday, leaving the House in paralysis after 20 Republicans opposed the Ohio Republican.
Conservative Republican Rep. Jim Jordan fell significantly short of winning the House speaker’s gavel on a first ballot Tuesday, leaving the House in paralysis after 20 Republicans opposed the Ohio Republican.
The GOP is really in disarray right now. Good.
Sadly, their base is actually celebrating this.
Of course they are, it’s a win for Putin and Trump
Evil eats its own
Jordan deserves at least as much embarrassment as McCarthy received during his campaign for the speakership.
Gym Jordan has been a national embarrassment since forever.
But that's us being embarrassed by him. Losing a bunch of speakership votes embarrasses him.
He deserves far more than that. Such as getting a cactus shoved up his ass once an hour every hour.
Let me get this straight. Jordan and all them set an artificial rule that nobody’s going to go out there and be voted on unless they have the votes. Scalise decides to bow out because he cannot get the votes locked in before the actual vote. Then Jordan and them dispense with this rule they created, go to the floor, and immediately start going through what they were allegedly trying to prevent days later?
Wow.
Why… if I didn’t know any better I would think you are accusing them of being hypocrites.
I mean I get why but it’s still baffling. It was a reasonable rule too! Why go through all this embarrassment? My guess is Jordan just wanted to get Scalise out and now he wants to weaponize the public process to build pressure on holdouts.
If Jordan becomes speaker, he'll try to use the authority to paralyze the House in a bid to get charges dropped against Trump.
Fortunately it's in the hands of the executive branch and he can't touch it.
Stalling student loan repayment was in the hands of the executive branch... all it took was republicans holding the government hostage over a shutdown like the one coming up again if they don't pass a budget resolution.
Dems need to nominate Liz Cheney for speaker. They could easily get 20 GOP votes (she was their former leader) but would only need 5 of their votes. She would still be Republican but she is also a loyal American.
The reasonable Republicans have always had the option of approaching the Democrats and making concessions in order to get a speaker elected on a bipartisan basis, they just haven't.
We are talking about a speaker elected by all Dems and a small number of Republicans. It would have to be Dems to set that up.
Won't work this go around. The speaker pro tempore wouldn't let the vote get to the floor if they thought that might happen. It's an all republican circus this time.
I feel so sorry for the Republican Party right now. Soooo sorry. They totally didn't dig this hole for themselves. Nope. Not at all. When they hitched their wagon to a fire breathing dragon, there was simply no way to know they would get burned. They do not deserve to be in this situation.
Where are the spongebob memes?